Aron Griffis


3 Winding Valley Rd, Hollis, NH 03049
aron@griffis1.net

Experience

2006-present Hewlett-Packard — Linux Virtualization Engineer
  • Working with Linux distributions to enable virtualization technologies (Xen, KVM, VT-d) on HP's next-generation servers
  • Produced the DL785 RHEL 5.4 KVM reference architecture to meet a tight market-driven schedule, demonstrating 256 guests in a NUMA-tuned configuration to achieve sub-second response time at full load
  • Wrote "tiler" virtual machine manager for rapid virtualization testing
  • Drove a successful cross-company effort (HP, Intel, Fujitsu, Red Hat) to port Xen/IA64 into RHEL 5 as a tech preview, with full support following in RHEL 5.1
  • Presented Xen/IA64 update at Xen Summit November 2007
2009-present Hewlett-Packard — OSLP Security Working Group Lead
  • Leading remote access investigation and development, including http-proxy and OpenVPN
  • Representing HP Linux community in IT remote access planning
  • Authored and presently maintaining access-hp remote access client (PKCS #11 smartcard, certificate-based authentication)
2004-2006 Hewlett-Packard — Linux Security Certification Engineer
  • Designed and implemented the audit-test harness used for CAPP and LSPP certifications
  • Wrote augrok for parsing audit logs
2001-2007 Gentoo Linux — Lead Developer
  • Led ports to Alpha and IA64 architectures
  • Designed and wrote network startup code and conf.d processing
  • Maintained ebuilds for complex packages such as baselayout, mozilla, firefox, ruby and vim
  • Rewrote and assumed maintainership for keychain front-end to cryptographic agents
  • Wrote votify software used for Gentoo elections, based on the Condorcet method
  • Exceeded 13,500 CVS commits tracked by cia.vc
  • Served as one of the original trustees for the Gentoo Foundation
1999-2004 Compaq / Hewlett-Packard — Tru64 UNIX Network Driver Developer
  • Wrote Tigon3 Gigabit Ethernet driver with advanced interrupt mitigation algorithm
  • Designed and implemented 64-bit counters with backward-compatible ioctls
  • Debugged critical network driver issues for Ericsson and Motorola telco releases
1997 Burlington Coat Factory — Network Engineer
  • Developed LPRng-based printing system deployed in stores
  • Prototyped store backend using Linux on SPARC
  • Wrote code to efficiently determine host network location

Education

1994-1999 Taylor University, Upland, IN
Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science
  • Received TU Presidential Scholarship, Computer Science Merit Scholarship and D.J. Angus-Scientech Most Improved Student Award
  • Won 1st place (1995) and 2nd place (1996) in Rose-Hulman Midwest Invitational Programming Contest

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